Oklahoma's Julian Felix Aaronson is an American writer/director focused on translating his deep anxiety and insecurities about sexuality, gender, and everyday life to the screen. His first film, “The External-Internal Monologue of an Interdependent Insomniac,” explored the critical topic of sexuality through an insomniac's opinion of different scents. This film garnered selections and awards from SIFF, SFIFF, and YoungArts, and eventually his acceptance into NYU, Tisch.